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Thursday, March 29, 2018

#1988: William John Meegan

William John Meegan is a fundie, conspiracy
theorist, astrologist and author, for instance of the book The
Sistine Chapel: A Study in Celestial Cartography. “From the brilliant mind of researcher-author William John Meegan, The
Sistine Chapel … is a highly mystical and contemplative inquiry into The
Mysteries and Esoteric Teachings of the Catholic Church,” says the
description on Meegan’s website, apparently written by himself. (We do wonder
how calling your inquiry “mystical” would
be a selling point; not that the intended audience is likely to notice.) Apparently
it’s the third of a series, following The
Secrets & the Mysteries of Genesis: Antiquity’s Hall of Records and The Conquest of Genesis: A Study in
Universal Creation Mathematics, which we haven’t seen but sounds
suspiciously like it might deploy some serious numerology – Meegan is heavily into what he calls “esotericscience”, which is as far removed
from science as numerology and astrology, which, by the way, is what his esoteric
science apparently is (gematria,
to be precise), with a heavy sprinkle of sacred geometry.

You can read Meegan’s own description here.
Senseless babble comes no less sensible than that. Illuminating sample: “Each letter of the world’s sacred literature
is symbolized and alphanumerically structured, which makes the interpretation
of each word far more important than the sum of its letters;” one would
think that the interpretations of words
go beyond the sum of their letters in
ordinary conversation (insofar as
there is a difference between seeing a string of letters you understand and seeing
one you don’t understand), but we nevertheless have our doubts that they do in
the rants and ravings of William John Meegan.

Despite their contents, Meegan’s books seem
to be marketed as non-fiction.

2 comments:

Whoever reviewed this book is a cretin! To review something with any validity you should know something of the subject matter, in this instance the reviewer just displays their own ignorance & conceit.I don't even like the way Meegan writes, but at least he has something to say- unlike G.D's (is that a pisstake of G*D !?) review that only really tells us the reviewer has limited scope & a smarmy attitude.